Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

The Beiling Emperor was born superstitious, and he believed all the legends about ghosts and monsters as if they were real. If Wu Meifeng, who was by his side, was really associated with evil spirits and ghosts, then Wu Meifeng's good days would be over.

Wu Meifeng fell to her knees with a thud, crying her heart out, moving heaven and earth. She cried out for justice and said she was innocent.

“Princess Qinwen is so good at lying without blushing or getting nervous. I admire her so much.” Seeing that the time was right, Xiao Zhan walked to the center of the hall, clasped his fists towards Emperor Beiling, and bowed deeply.

“Your Majesty, today is a happy day, and Yun Che didn’t want to spoil your fun, so he planned to talk about it later. But this vengeful spirit was so anxious that it used divination to warn you, and Yun Che felt that this matter could not be delayed any longer.”

"What's going on?" Emperor Beiling felt like he was being scratched by a cat after hearing what Xiao Zhan said. He was anxious to know the whole story.

“Your Majesty, Yun Che has already found out who was behind the skinning murder. Guess who it was? It’s the one next to you, Princess Qinwen.”

Xiao Zhan pointed at Wu Meifeng and, with a loud voice and every word as golden as gold, revealed her true face.

In the blink of an eye, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck Wu Meifeng not far away. The ground instantly turned into a scorched earth, and the air was filled with a burnt smell, as if God was angry and sent a direct punishment from heaven.

"You're talking nonsense!" Wu Meifeng was flustered and confused by Xiao Zhan's public accusation. She could not think of anything except shouting "nonsense".

"Xiao Zhan, do you know what you are saying?" On one side is a thorn in his side, and on the other side is the beauty who is about to be made a concubine. Xiao Yan's first reaction, of course, is to stand on the side of Concubine Wu.

“Don’t be angry, Your Majesty. Yun Che knows what he is doing.” Xiao Zhan had long expected Xiao Yan to do this, and he remained calm in the face of doubts.

"Your Highness Prince Gong, Qinwen, let me ask myself, we have no grudges against each other, why do you have to make it difficult for me? Is it because of the little friction between Princess Gong and I last time, so you... If that's the case, Qinwen is willing to apologize to Princess Gong, why bother to put so much effort into putting such a big accusation on me.

Your Majesty, today is the great day when I am crowned my consort. Are you going to allow His Royal Highness Prince Gong to speak nonsense and slander me here?"

Wu Meifeng recovered and put on a pitiful look, complaining to Emperor Beiling with tears in her eyes. Her weak look could melt Emperor Beiling's heart.

"Don't be afraid. With me here, no one can bully you." As a hero saving a beauty, Emperor Beiling hugged Wu Meifeng's slender waist and said to Xiao Zhan aggressively:

"Prince Gong, you cannot make such a serious accusation in front of the whole court and the beauties in the harem. As a prince, you should know that slandering concubines is a serious crime. You said Qin Wen was the mastermind of the murder. What evidence do you have?"

“Since Yun Che dares to assert this in front of so many adults and the queen, it is obvious that he has solid evidence in his hands.” As soon as Xiao Zhan finished speaking, he turned his head to signal Tieyi, asking him to present the evidence.

When Wu Meifeng heard this, her heart was suddenly shaken and her emotions surged like a raging sea.

She stared at Tieyi intently, only to see him leave the banquet venue and then come back with a group of people and a huge sack.

The group of people all lowered their heads, their messy long hair covering their faces, and a streak of bright red seeped from the bottom of the sack, leaving a shocking bloodstain on the ground as it was dragged.

Wu Meifeng's heartbeat accelerated as Tieyi approached, as if it was about to jump out of her throat at the next moment.

Even though she couldn't see the faces of those people clearly, she seemed to have guessed their identities. Similarly, she had a bad feeling about the contents of the sack.

"Your Majesty, these people are palace servants who witnessed Princess Qinwen's atrocities. As for what's in the sack, in order to avoid scaring the ladies, please step aside for the time being."

The concubines looked at each other, and most of them chose to turn around and avoid it, but there were also some like the Queen and Ye Zhaoyi who chose to face the tragedy head-on.

The Eleventh Prince was so curious that he struggled to see the contents of the sack, but was stopped by Sun Xiurong and Xiao Jin, who forcibly covered his eyes.

"Your Majesty, these are the evidences found in the main hall of Kunyi Palace. They are exactly the same as the flesh and blood found in the dry well in the cold palace." Xiao Zhan ordered Tieyi to drag two brutally skinned corpses out of the sacks and place them on the hall.

It was the first time that the court officials saw such a cruel scene and they all gasped.

Everyone present knew who the owner of the main hall of Kunyi Palace was. Their eyes wandered between the two horrible corpses and Wu Meifeng on the high platform, revealing undisguised hatred in their eyes.

Under the accusatory gazes of the court officials, Wu Meifeng panicked and said, "This is a frame-up. Someone deliberately killed someone and then framed me."

Faced with Wu Meifeng's hysteria, Xiao Zhan remained unmoved, "Frame-up? Of course, these two people can no longer speak. However, we can listen to what these living people have to say." He motioned to those who were kneeling beside the corpse to raise their heads.

"Princess Qinwen, you should be familiar with these people, right?"

The servants raised their heads one by one, their eyes full of hatred towards Wu Meifeng. This vicious woman not only forced them to endure the fear of skinning people alive, but also wanted to kill people to silence them. Her methods were so cruel that they were simply outrageous to both humans and gods.

"What? I don't know them? I've never seen them at all." Wu Meifeng was so frightened that her head shook like a rattle. She waved her hands repeatedly and backed away while talking. As a result, her knees hit the chair behind her and she sat down with her butt. The ornaments on her head fell to pieces.

When Emperor Beiling saw her panic-stricken look, he already knew what was going on and his face was as gloomy as if a thunderstorm was about to come.

A little barbarian girl actually killed his people on his territory. This simply showed that she did not take him, the boss of Beiling, seriously.

"Princess Qinwen, you have to open your eyes and see clearly. Do you really not recognize him? If you really don't recognize him, why are you reacting so strongly?"

Xiao Zhan curled his lips and sneered, then turned his eyes and looked at the queen beside him: "Queen, since Princess Qinwen does not admit that she knows these people, please come forward and help us identify who these people are."

Queen?

Emperor Beiling glanced back and forth between the Queen and Xiao Zhan, his face full of surprise. The Queen and Yun Che were usually at loggerheads, when did their relationship become so good? Yun Che actually asked her to come out and point the finger?

Jiang Xue stared at Xiao Zhan's back and recalled the long talk they had that night.

A few days ago, he did not return home all night. It turned out that he was trying hard to win over the queen who usually went against him.

In this deep palace, there is only one person who has the ability to quietly protect these palace servants from Wu Meifeng's murderous clutches.